My bedtime was extra-early last evening ─ I may have been into "the sack" as early as 9:00 p.m.
Naturally the thanks are due to my younger brother who couldn't retain consciousness after he was home from wherever he had been drinking.
He had gotten home fairly early that evening, too.
He had regained consciousness before I put myself to bed, but I had already written the evening off. To rejoin him and start operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box (which he cannot operate) to fetch episodes of T.V. series we follow would have meant I would be sitting up into the midnight hour, and I was disinclined to do so.
Of course, getting to bed so early translated into rising very early to get to work on the day's content assignment at the new post I am constructing at one of my six hosted websites. I was up from bed well before 2:00 a.m. in order to turn on and log into my computer to have it all set for later use.
I returned to bed for somewhere between 15 to 20 minutes, and then got back up and got to work.
I stuck at the content assignment until it was over with for the day; and then around 5:50 a.m. I was back into bed, barely getting there before my eldest stepson had gotten up to begin readying for his workday.
Apparently his younger brother was to have today off work.
I managed to get further sleep, but was back up and out of bed by 9:30 a.m.
And at 10:00 a.m. I joined my brother in the living room to use our Android TV Box to call up an episode each of three different series that we follow, and that took us deep into the noon-hour.
By then, he was ready to seek some further bed rest before taking off for the afternoon.
I got some exercise with my 43½-pound dumbbell, then fixed up a meal. I am lacking any animal protein except for what is provided by some old cheddar cheese, so I dearly would love to get out and do some shopping.
To that end, I forsook taking any Sun in the backyard despite the day proving to be gloriously sunny. Instead, after my brother had gone, I finally got around to seeking a nap later into the afternoon than I am happy about.
It is now 4:59 p.m., and I have been up from that nap for less than an hour, but not feeling particularly restored. My protein-deficient meal is still weighing rather heavily within me.
The only way I am going to be able to do any grocery shopping locally will be by getting a little further bed rest, for I doubt I exceeded an hour this afternoon.
My life absolutely sucks.
I might actually ─ if I do get out to shop ─ go to a pharmacy instead of a produce market. I am almost out of vitamin D3 ─ the sunshine vitamin; and I can at least buy some eggs at the pharmacy.
I would also like to get some vitamin K2. The pharmacy doesn't sell any by itself ─ their product has it in combination with vitamin D3, which I already supplement myself with.
I would prefer vitamin K2 on its own, but the product in combination with vitamin D3 (1,000 I.U.s) does have 120-mcgs of vitamin K2 in each 'softgel' capsule in the form of menaquinone-7 (MK-7), apparently derived from natto.
That's a decent boost where supplemental strength is concerned.
If your familiarity with any of this is shaky or even absent, vitamin K is essential to good health. However, I recently learned that it even helps our teeth to remineralize.
We can get vitamin K1 from certain plants that we may eat, but our bodies are not very efficient at absorbing and converting that form into a form we can use.
Vitamin K2 is far more effective in that context.
As for the story on its benefit for our teeth, here are four articles ─ I just want to object to the third article's recommendation on taking calcium supplements:
HSIonline.com
DrStevenLin.com
DrAxe.com
AskTheDentist.com
So why do I object to calcium supplements?
According to Dr. Marc S. Micozzi, "research shows calcium supplements can increase the risk of heart disease, dementia, kidney disease, and—paradoxically—bone fractures."
You can find quite a few articles about this at his website. Provided that my search link keeps working, refer to the search I made using the term "calcium supplements."
Read and heed!
I want to close this post and get some rest ─ as I said, I hope to get out and make that four-block hike to the pharmacy early this evening, and I would like to get away before my younger brother shows up this evening.
In yesterday's post, I wrote of learning that my wife ─ who has been over in Thailand for well over a month now on a visit to her mother ─ is supposed to be on a return flight that will arrive at Vancouver International Airport sometime tomorrow evening (according to her eldest son).
That being so, she would have already said good-bye to everyone, for she has to catch a flight from Udon Thani International Airport in order to get her to Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok for that return flight home.
In fact, it is even possible that before she can get to Suvarnabhumi International Airport, her flight from Udon Thani would take her to Don Mueang International Airport, and she would have to catch some manner of transit to get to the bigger and newer airport. If so, then she will have already left her family at Udon Thani half a day ago.
It's always such a lonely trip back here to Canada for her, but at least her two sons are here.
Anyway, I have a few photos that she posted to Facebook nearly a month ago. If I made the calculations properly, it was Sunday, April 7 (2019), and she posted the photos at 10:54 a.m. ─ local Thailand time.
I think she was likely in the city of Udon Thani having a meal with her mother; Lumpoon, one of my wife's two sisters; and Lumpoon's daughter, who got married last year in February.
You should be able to figure out who is who ─ my wife loves taking group selfies:
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